Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A chamber-pot.

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Examples

  • Nobel prize novelist Camilo José Cela recommended a more formal approach – donning pyjamas, saying a prayer and taking a piss-pot to the bedroom.

    Spanish stereotypes: They love siestas 2011

  • It began on a day as seemed like any others for the Waiftaker General, as he rose from his fancy four-poster bed, bid his butler hold the piss-pot for him whiles he drains his bladder, then pour water -- piping hot!

    A Reminder Hal Duncan 2010

  • It began on a day as seemed like any others for the Waiftaker General, as he rose from his fancy four-poster bed, bid his butler hold the piss-pot for him whiles he drains his bladder, then pour water -- piping hot!

    The Scruffians Project: The Beast of Buskerville Hal Duncan 2010

  • It began on a day as seemed like any others for the Waiftaker General, as he rose from his fancy four-poster bed, bid his butler hold the piss-pot for him whiles he drains his bladder, then pour water -- piping hot!

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Croft ran back to the cell, where Guthrie was standing over the piss-pot, examining the contents suspiciously.

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • I looked through every pair of eyes I could find in this piss-pot Carcer, and then I turned away.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • I looked through every pair of eyes I could find in this piss-pot Carcer, and then I turned away.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • I looked through every pair of eyes I could find in this piss-pot Carcer, and then I turned away.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • Become the willing piss-pot and spittoon of the Yens and we will be proud of you.

    The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

  • What makes us call one piece a work of art and another a piss-pot?

    From The Archive: Conceptual Art David Hadley 2008

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